Sunday's NYTimes Magazine asks what's a Federal Reserve chief to do when banks won't lend money, oil has reached $100 a barrel and unemployment is up. It's a well reasoned, long discussion that comes out more favorable than not. Highly recommended.
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In this Payments Post, we discuss the DOJ bringing a lawsuit against Visa that alleges the company operates an illegal monopoly in the debit card space. Does the argument have merit in our non-legal minds? And if so, what could the DOJ’s move mean for an evolving payments landscape?
It’s time for another edition of Payments Post and (surprise!) we’re thinking about the Visa Flexible Credential again. Now that Apple has plans to open up the NFC chip and Secure Element to third party developers, we’re scratching our heads. Who benefits from this newfound NFC access? What opportunities can fintechs unlock? How will conventional financial institutions react? And to tie it all back, does the VFC still matter?
In this month’s Payments Post, we revisit the prime use case for Visa Flexible Credential (VFC): BNPL. How are buy now pay later providers positioning themselves in the current environment, how are consumers using their tools, and how are regulators and issuers responding?
In this month’s Payments Post, Glenbrook takes a look at recent changes to the Apple Wallet announced at WWDC, the Visa Flexible Credential (VFC), tokenization, and the future of card transactions.
Glenbrook’s Samantha Gordon unpacks the Visa Flexible Credential, one of many new products announced by Visa at their annual Payments Forum earlier this month.
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